Valerie Amos, the visiting UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said Thursday that she is still waiting for the Syrian government's response to her proposal to give the UN family the chance to conduct an independent assessment of the humanitarian situation in Syria's restive areas.

Amos, now on a three-day visit to Syria, made the remarks following her meeting with Abdul-Rhaman Attar, the head of the Syrian Red Crescent, who took her for a tour at the operation center of the Red Crescent volunteers in the capital Damascus.

"I am now waiting to hear from the government with respect to the proposal that we discussed yesterday with respect to having the opportunity to do assessments in a number of areas," Amos told reporters.

"I discussed with the government the importance of the UN family to conduct independent assessment of the humanitarian situation" in restive Syrian areas, she said.

Amos, who visited the focal point neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs province Wednesday, said that the neighborhood "is totally destroyed."

"I saw that for myself ... there are few people who are still there," she said, adding "We all are very concerned to know where the people been displaced to and how can we assist them."

Asked by Xinhua to evaluate her visit, Amos noted that she is still waiting to get the answer from the government to be able to evaluate her visit to Syria.

"I will evaluate my visit once I hear from the government with respect to the proposal I put to them yesterday," she said.

Amos, who arrived to Syria after midnight Tuesday, has met with many Syrian officials. She said the Foreign Ministry gave her an assurance that she could go anywhere she wish.

Baba Amr has emerged as the epicenter of armed confrontation between troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and armed rebels comprising partly of army defectors.

Activists said Baba Amr has been under the army's bombardment for nearly a month, and hundreds of people have been killed in the area since Feb. 4, when the Syrian army started its assault on " armed groups." However, the government said it was fighting armed terrorist groups and al-Qaida members, who have reportedly infiltrated into Syria to fight alongside the rebels.

Local and foreign reports said that al-Qaida fighters are sneaking from Iraq to Syria to join Sunni insurgents in their battle against the Damascus administration, which is dominated by a Shiite offshoot sect.

The Syrian government has accused some Arab and Western countries of providing weapons and financial support to the armed groups in Syria. It said in December 2011 that "armed terrorist groups" have killed more than 2,000 army and security personnel during the unrest.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said recently that "well over" 7, 500 people have died in Syria's violence.